¹When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

¹In ko Roboam dospe v Jeruzalem, zbere hišo Judovo in Benjaminovo, sto in osemdeset tisoč izbranih mož vojščakov, da se bojujejo zoper Izraela in zopet pridobé kraljestvo Roboamu.

²But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

²Ali beseda GOSPODOVA pride Semaju, možu Božjemu, govoreč:

³“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

³Govóri Roboamu, sinu Salomonovemu, kralju Judovemu, in vsemu Izraelu na Judovem in Benjaminovem, in véli:

⁴‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Return every man to his house; for this thing is of me.”’” So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

⁴Tako pravi GOSPOD: Ne hodite gori in ne bojujte se z brati svojimi; vrnite se vsak v hišo svojo, zakaj od mene je prišla ta reč. In poslušali so besedo GOSPODOVO in so se vrnili, da ne bi šli zoper Jeroboama.

⁵Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.

⁵In Roboam je prebival v Jeruzalemu in prezidal je mesta na Judovem v trdnjave.

⁶He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

⁶Pozidal je namreč Betlehem, Etam, Tekoo,

⁷Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam,

⁷Betzur, Soko, Adulam,

⁸and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

⁸Gat, Mareso, Zif,

⁹and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

⁹Adoraim, Lahis, Azeko,

¹⁰and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.

¹⁰Zoro, Ajalon in Hebron, utrjena mesta na Judovem in Benjaminovem.

¹¹He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.

¹¹In utrdil je trdnjave in namestil poveljnike vanje in preskrbel živeža, olja in vina,

¹²He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

¹²in v vsako posamezno mesto je del ščite in sulice ter jih je povsem dobro utrdil. In Juda in Benjamin sta bila njegova.

¹³The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

¹³In duhovniki in leviti, ki so bili po vsem Izraelu, so prišli k njemu iz vseh svojih krajev.

¹⁴For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahweh;

¹⁴Kajti leviti so zapustili svoje okraje in posestva ter so se priselili na Judovo in v Jeruzalem; Jeroboam in sinovi njegovi so jih namreč zavrgli, da ne bi opravljali duhovniške službe GOSPODU;

¹⁵and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

¹⁵in postavil si je duhovnike za višave in za mališke kozle in za teleti, ki si ju je bil naredil.

¹⁶After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

¹⁶In za duhovniki so prihajali iz vseh rodov Izraelovih tisti, ki so nagnili srce svoje, da bi iskali GOSPODA, Izraelovega Boga, v Jeruzalem darovat GOSPODU, Bogu očetov svojih.

¹⁷So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

¹⁷S tem so pomagali do moči kraljestvu Judovemu in utrjevali Roboama, sina Salomonovega, tri leta; kajti tri leta so hodili po poti Davidovi in Salomonovi.

¹⁸Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

¹⁸In Roboam si vzame za ženo Mahalato, hčer Jerimota, sina Davidovega, in Abihaile, hčere Eliaba, sina Jesejevega;

¹⁹and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

¹⁹in ona mu je rodila sinove: Jeuša, Semarija in Zahama.

²⁰After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

²⁰Po tej si vzame še Maako, hčer Absalomovo, in ta mu je rodila Abija, Ataja, Ziza in Selomita.

²¹Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

²¹Ljubil je pa Roboam Maako, hčer Absalomovo, bolj nego vse žene in priležnice svoje (vzel si je namreč osemnajst žen in šestdeset priležnic in je rodil osemindvajset sinov in šestdeset hčera).

²²Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, the prince among his brothers; for he intended to make him king.

²²In Roboam je postavil Abija, sina Maake, da bodi glava, knez med svojimi brati, zakaj hotel ga je postaviti za kralja.In ravnal je previdno in razstavil je vse sinove svoje po vseh krajih Judovih in Benjaminovih, po vseh utrjenih mestih, in oskrbel jim je živeža v obilici; in snubil jim je mnogo žen.

²³He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought for them many wives.

²³In ravnal je previdno in razstavil je vse sinove svoje po vseh krajih Judovih in Benjaminovih, po vseh utrjenih mestih, in oskrbel jim je živeža v obilici; in snubil jim je mnogo žen.